Plenty went wrong for the 49ers in Week 17 as they were unexpectedly drawn into a shootout with a Raiders team playing a quarterback making his first start in Jarrett Stidham. However, San Francisco can take great solace — not only in winning a 37-34 overtime thriller — but in how the Niners found a way to finish on both sides of the ball when faced with adversity.
Neither rookie QB Brock Purdy nor San Francisco’s vaunted defense had received much of a test of late, but both were given stern examinations in an absorbing contest.
